JINDO (South Korea), April 16 (AFP): South Korean rescuers, including elite navy SEAL divers, worked frantically under floodlights Wednesday to find nearly 300 people missing after a ferry sank with 459 on board, mostly high school students bound for a...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-04-17 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has moved to hike taxes on soft drinks by 10 per cent to check abuse of the existing tax benefit by some energy drink producers. The Value Added Tax (VAT) wing of the NBR...
FE Report | 2014-04-17 00:00:00
After two consecutive days the agitating doctors of BIRDEM Hospital in the city ended their work abstention Wednesday to the relief of patients who faced immense sufferings. The protesting doctors were back on their duty after Wednesday evening hearing the...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan said on Wednesday he knows nothing about the arrest of an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent of Pakistan by Indian RAW members in Dhaka, reports UNB. "I know nothing yet about it. I read it...
The Supreme Court (SC) could any day deliver the verdict on the appeals filed by both sides over the ICT-1 verdict condemning Delwar Hossain Sayedee, nayeb-e-ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, to death for his 1971 Libration War Crimes as the Appellate Division...
NEW DELHI, Apr 16 (Agencies): The fifth phase of Indian Lok Sabha (Lower house) polls in 121 constituencies spread over 12 states will be held tomorrow. The Lok Sabha Constituencies include all 28 seats in Karnataka, 20 in Rajasthan, 19...
FE Report | 2014-04-17 00:00:00
The government has sought more time to meet some of the conditions set by the US and the EU to improve the workplace safety and labour standards in the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector. The government has sought time until...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-04-17 00:00:00
The government has finally sent the progress report on implementation of Bangladesh Action Plan 2013 for the country's ready-made garment (RMG) sector to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in a bid to get back the suspended trade facility -...
Siddique Islam | 2014-04-17 00:00:00
Country's commercial banks have started investing their excess funds in the government securities following lower demand for fresh credit especially from private sector, bankers said. As a result, the banks' investment in the treasury bonds and treasury bills rose to...
Our Correspondent | 2014-04-17 00:00:00
NARAYANGANJ, Apr 16: Armed miscreants kidnapped a readymade garments businessman on gun point in broad daylight on Wednesday from Dhaka-Narayanganj link road under Fatullah thana in Narayanganj. The victim was identified as Abu Bakar Siddiqui, 47, managing director of Hamid...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-04-17 00:00:00
Japan is likely to sign a deal on concessional loans amounting to US$1.18 billion for Bangladesh's five development projects, including the country's largest 1,200 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Cox's Bazar early next month, officials said Wednesday. The ministry...
Monira Munni | 2014-04-17 00:00:00
The Rana Plaza victims are yet to get promised compensations though nearly one year has gone by since the tragic incident, causing untold sufferings to the several hundred affected families, victims and labour leaders say. Except a few pledges made...
COX'S BAZAR, Apr 16: The bodies of the two missing students, out of four, of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology were recovered from the Bay of Bengal at the Saint Martin's Island here on Wednesday morning. The latest recovery...
The government said Wednesday it did not take any step or published any advertisement to recruit any workers, employees and drivers for the Padma Multipurpose Bridge (PMB) project. An official handout said that the government recently had received allegations from...
Chittagong’s rail communications with Dhaka and Sylhet has been restored several hours after the movement of train in the important rail route was suspended following derailment of a train at Sadar upazila in Comilla district on Wednesday night. Masud Sarwar,...
At least seven people are confirmed to have died and scores missing in South Korean ferry disaster. Officials say dozens more people were injured and 179 have been rescued since the ferry, with 475 passengers and crew on board, leaned...
The historic Mujibnagar Day is being observed on Thursday to mark the formation of Bangladesh’s first government to lead the War of Liberation in 1971. The ruling Awami League (AL), its associate bodies and different other political parties and organisations...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday paid homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing floral wreath at the portrait of the great leader at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in the city marking the historic 17th April-Mujibnagar Day. Sheikh Hasina first...
A court in Sirajganj has convicted two people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for attempt to kill a man by hurling acid in 2013. The convicts were Kashem Ali, 30, son of Kajem Ali of Sontala village, and...
Law enforcers have failed to trace businessman Abu Bakar Siddiqueone day after he was abducted in Narayanganj city. A gang of armed miscreants abducted lawyer-turned entrepreneur Abu Bakar Siddique, husband of Syeda Rizwana Hasan, the chief executive of Bangladesh Environmental...
The chief election commissioner has announced the schedule for the sixth phase of the 4th Upazila Parishad elections. CEC Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad has announced the schedule at a press conference in the city. The local government polls have already been...
FE Online Report | 2014-04-17 00:00:00
The prices of most of the shares on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed positive trend in early hours of trading on Thursday, the last trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the...
A fire broke out at a shoe warehouse at New Market at Savar upazila in the outskirts of the city on Thursday morning. However, no casualty is reported till filing the report and 11:45 am. The fire has burned down...
The husband of the award-winning environmental lawyer Rizwana Hasan was whisked away in a blue microbus from Narayanganj, when on his way to Dhaka, police said. Narayanganj’s Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Shahidul Islam said that they have identified...
At least 15 people, including a member of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), were injured in a clash between Barisal University students and law enforces in Sadar upazila in Barisal district on Thursday. Witnesses said the BU students placed barricade on...
A tribunal in Jessore on Wednesday sentenced a schoolteacher to life term imprisonment for violating a schoolgirl at Sharsha upazila in Jessore district 10 years ago. The convict was identified as Rejaul Islam Mukul, a teacher of Baikun Government Primary...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday said the IGP has been instructed to carry out a coordinated drive with the help of police, Rab and the intelligence agency to rescue Abu Bakar Siddique, husband of Bela chief executive...
The European Rohingya Council (ERC), a Netherlands-based NGO, has requested the people and government of Bangladesh to play a key role in finding out a ‘just and lasting’ solution to the longstanding Rohingya problem in the interest of Bangladesh and...
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